Molding machine



Nov. 17,1925. 1,561,500

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ATTORNEY J. R. WOOD MOLDING MACHINE Nov. 17, 1925. 1,561,500

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. WOOD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO NEW PROCESS MULTI- CASTIN GS COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MOLDING MACHINE.

Application filed September 19, 1923. Serial No. 663,694.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. 001), a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molding Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In the process of molding from matched pattern plates, as heretofore practised, one side of the plate is made the bottom of a drag which is rammed by hand and inverted; the other side is made the bottom of a cope, is also rammed by hand, and after the removal of the plate this cope is assembled with the drag to form a mold contained in a flask which is then poured.

N o practicable way has hitherto been devised for utilizing such a molding machine as is known as a jolt machine, for the pro duction of molds by the use of such matched plates that does not follow this same process. In other words the drag member of a flask with one side of the matched plate forming the bot-tom is first'placed on the machine and rammed. It is then removed, inverted, and the plate lifted, a bottom board secured to the drag, and the latter set aside.

Similarly a cope member of a flask is rammed by the machine, the plate lifted, and the cope associated with the drag to form the complete mold. No two flasks are exactly alike, however, and such differences in shape and size as exist or may result from use, frequently fail to produce a perfect mold, with the result that in all foundries where this or these plans are in use, a very material and often serious loss is met with in the number or proportion of defective castings. I

It is the object of the present invention to avoid this loss, and to provide a process of molding any and all kinds of articles by the use of jolt machines and matched pattern plates, which is simple and highly efficient. I accordingly proceed as'follows.

A single permanent flask is constructed for a given jolt machine, in two parts or sections, a drag and a cope section, the entire flask when assembled tapering up from the bottom of the drag, so that each section, when the mold is rammed, may be lifted off leaving the finished sand mold. '1.) ram such a mold, the two flask sections are assembled with a matched pattern plate between them, and firmly secured together. The plate may be of any desired thickness, and the pattern on one side is designed to form one half of the mold up to the parting line, while the pattern on the other side forms the other half.

This flask is set in a frame supported and carried by the portion of the machine which is jolted, with the drag uppermost and the top of the cope resting on the table which is capable of vertical motion. The machine is then started in operation and sand supplied to the open drag which is packed or rammed. A bottom board isthen secured to the under or wider side of the drag, the entire flask raised and turned to insert the flask, and then lowered until the drag bot tom board rests on the table.

The cope section of the flask is then filled, packed or rammed, until there is produced a completely rammedfiask with the interposed pattern plate. The drag section is rammed somewhat more solidly than would ordinarily be required, and I have found that when this is done there is no appreciable settling of the sand mold therein from the pattern while the cope is being rammed.

When the flask has been thus prepared the cope resting in the frame is released from the drag and raised. A frame which normally lies below the flask is then raised and pins or projections thereon engage with the edges of the pattern plate and lift the same from the drag. This frame with the plate is then swung to one side, and the cope lowered down upon the drag, bringing the sand which it contains directly down upon that in the drag and forming a perfect mold.

The cope member is then loosened from .plates the use of are well known in this art, and will be illustrated herein only so far as maybe necessary to an understanding of the improvement.

In the drawings hereto annexed,

Fig. 1 is a View in elevation of a standard form of jolt machine, with a flask therein shown in section and inverted;

Fig. 2 is a similar View of the same parts showing the flask in normalposition;

Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the two partsof thewflask separated and the pattern plate raised from the drag and Fig. 4 is a View of the lifting frame which raises thepattern plate from the drag.

The machine as. a whole comprises a table 1, which may be raised or lowered by a pis tonworking in a cylinder 2. At each side of. the table are the jolt cylinders S, with their pistonsl, and to these pistons are secured thetrunnions 5 of a frame 5, which receives the cope member 7 of the flask, of which 8 is the drag ,member.

The cope and drag members 7 and.8 are secured together with a pattern plate 9 be tween them. the opposite sides of this plate are the half-patterns l 0,so that when the flask, inserted as .inFig. 1, is supplied with sand and jolted by the pistonsl, the drag member is packed. ts stated above, this packing .is carried beyond the point ordinarily required in order that in thesubsequent steps the, sand therein may. not settle away fromthe pattern.

After being packed a bottom board 11 v is secured to the drag, the flask raised by the pistonsfl, turned. over and again lowered until such board restsupon the table 1, as shown in ,Fig. 2. The cope member 7 is then supplied with sand and the" flask again jolted until the: sandin the cope is packed.

After this is done the cope anddrag members are unlocked orlreleased from each otherand the .cope member raised by .the pistons 4, to a height sufficientto raise a frame 12, carried by a rod .or bar 13, secured to one of the vpiston heads, from a position normally I below the -fiaskto a point well above the drag member as shown in Fig.3.

This frame carries pins let, whiclr are in such position that a whenthe frame is raised they will engage-withthe projecting-edges oft-he pattern plate Qand'diftsaid plate fronr the drag. The. frame is of. sufficient size to pass over the sides andends of the drag flask member, but the pattern plate extends out beyond thewidest part of the drag, so as to beengagedby the pins 14 on the frame 12.

After the pattern has been lifted free of the drag the frame 12 is swung to one side and thecope member lowered onto the drag. Then by a slight jarring the cope maybe loosened from thesand and lifted off, and

in the same way the drag may be lifted off, leaving only the sand. This is removed by and with the board 11, and placed on the ground, when the machine may be at once used to make another mold from the same flask.

Sand molds of this kind have heretofore been made by hand ramming and it is unnecessary to. furtherexplain how they are utilized for producing the castings.

The above described process is the. only one known in this art by which a plurality of molds and castings maybe obtained from sand molds from a singleffiaskiby means of matched pattern plates,a nd.a joltimolding 'machine, which consists in placing theassembled cope and drag members ofa ,ilask with an interposed matched pattern plate on the machine in an inverted position,isup,plying mold material suchfas sand to-thedrag member and packing or :jolting it to, an,ab normal degree, closing with a board the drag member, then inverting the flask and packing the cope member, thenseparating the two members and. removing the pattern plate, then reassembling the two members and removing from the sand-mold the 00,136 and drag members,,and removing thesand mold on the drag board from the. table of the machine. Y

2. In the process .of making a plurality of sand molds fronra; single flask by means of matched pattern, plates and .a olt. .ma chme,

the step which consists in packing. the two members of an assembled flask with the nterposed pattern. plate on, the machine, but .]Oltl11g or. packing the first member of. such flask to an abnormal extent, so as ,to, prevent.

the sand therein from settlingawayfrom the pattern plate while theothermemberis being packed.

3. In the process of ,making a ,pluralitymf sand molds from a single flask by meansof matched pattern plate and a jolt machine,

the steps which consist in placing a; ,fl ask composed of assembled and interlocked cope and drag members with an interposed. pat-- tern plate on the machine in an. inverted lposltlon, with the drag. member uppermost,

packing the drag 1neinbenunt ilthesand is sufficiently solidified "to .prevent it from settling away from the, pattern plate in the subsequent operations, and then turning the:

flask to normal position and packingthe cope member.

4. The process of making. a plurality of sand molds from a singlefflask by the use of a matched,patternv plate and a joltlmachine, which consists in packing first one moving the flask members and the pattern member until the sand is sufiiciently solidiplate from the packed sand mold and refied to prevent it from settling away from moving the latter from the machine. 10 the pattern plate in the subsequent opera- In testimony whereof I hereto aflix my 5 tion, and then inverting and packing the signature.

other member of a flask with an interposed pattern plate between the two members, re- JOHN R. WOOD. 

